Lost Black Sword / EStudio

[Friendly79]

G'day guys..

Ill start by saying a giant Thank You for this program..
Played U7p2 way back when on my ol' 386 and when I heard about this a few years back I had to jump on it..

Well, here I am again.. just recently played / finished U7p1 as I haven't played it before now..
With that completed I just had to come back to the greatest game I ever played..

I'm in a bit of a bind atm, and I know you've been here once or thrice before.
I've lost my Black Sword.. How after playing this trough so many times I managed to lose it, I'll never know .

I tried to use the old item creator after searching the net for the code, but it seems that you've left the [C] option to create items out of your F2 cheat console.. Not a great loss normally as I play without cheating.. (this exception as I'm all the way up to fixing the black sword ready for the Banes, and I have absolutely no idea when / where I lost the Black Sword..

Ive installed Exult Studio over the top of the normal exult directory,
double checked the settings at the bottom of the exult.cfg

here is a C&P of the EStudio section of the Exult.cfg




serpentisle


gimp



1600


874






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I also noticed you ask a few others in the forums for the stdout.txt info as well.. so just in case, here it is
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Exult version 1.4.9RC1
Built at: Oct 21 2010 20:28:01
Compile-time options: USE_FMOPL_MIDI, USE_MT32EMU_MIDI, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: gcc, version: 4.2.1-dw2 (mingw32-2)

Platform: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Version 5.1 Build 2600
Exult path settings:
Data : data
Digital music : data\music

Looking for 'blackgate' at 'D:\Downloads\torrents\Ultima 7, 8 & 9\Ultima 7\Ultima 7 - The Black Gate'... found game with identity 'FORGE'
Looking for 'serpentisle' at 'D:\Downloads\torrents\Ultima 7, 8 & 9\Ultima 7\Ultima 7 Part Two - Serpent Isle\SI'... found game with identity 'SILVER SEED'
Looking for 'forgeofvirtue' at './forgeofvirtue'... but it wasn't there.
Looking for 'silverseed' at './silverseed'... but it wasn't there.
Black Gate : not found (\.)
Forge of Virtue : found
exult_bg.flx : found
Serpent Isle : not found (\.)
Silver Seed : found
exult_si.flx : found
Checking rendering support
Windowed 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
640x480 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
800x600 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1024x768 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1152x720 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1280x720 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1280x960 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1280x1024 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1600x900 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1680x1050 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1920x1080 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
Creating AudioMixer...
Audio opened using format: 22050 Hz 2 Channels
Timbers Precached: On play only
OGG Vorbis Digital Music: Enabled
Trying: `Windows'
1 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: Microsoft MIDI Mapper
0: Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth
Using device -1: Microsoft MIDI Mapper
Success!
Midi Output: Enabled
Starting a SERPENT ISLE game
Game path settings:
Static : D:\Downloads\torrents\Ultima 7, 8 & 9\Ultima 7\Ultima 7 Part Two - Serpent Isle\SI\static
Gamedat : C:\Documents and Settings\fred\Local Settings\Application Data\Exult\serpentisle\gamedat
Savegame: C:\Documents and Settings\fred\Local Settings\Application Data\Exult\serpentisle
Patch : D:\Downloads\torrents\Ultima 7, 8 & 9\Ultima 7\Ultima 7 Part Two - Serpent Isle\SI\patch

Opening digital SFX's file: "/sqsfxsi.flx"
Resetting AudioMixer...
played intro
Gamedat identity SILVER SEED
Reading usecode file.
Loading /exult_si.flx...
Loading default keybindings

Cheats enabled.
Switching to windowed mode.
Destroying AudioMixer...
Destroying MidiDriver...

[paulo]

The black sword teleports back to you when you drop it, overriding the weight limit even (it's a good way to cheat lift chests)

[Friendly79]

Sorry for the 2nd post, a little after 5am now and i seem to have only have told you my issue lol..

Quoting myself here,

"Ive installed Exult Studio over the top of the normal exult directory,
double checked the settings at the bottom of the exult.cfg"

After I load the game (no problems) I hit F4 to drop to windows mode as suggested and hit Alt-Ctrl-M, all it tells me is that I dont have the snapshot installed..

This is the one I have installed over the top of Exult
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 binary snapshot

will i also need? - Exult Win32 Tools snapshot
Gimp 1.x Plugin (For Windows)
Gimp 2.x Plugin (For Windows)

Going to leave it at the for now as far as info goes..
Getting pretty tired and I'm just going to make more mistakes lol.. check back in the morni.... afternoon

[Friendly79]

wow that was fast mate.. yeah i remember it always coming back to me as well.. altho after you release the Demon that you placed in it during U7p1 i believe it reverts back to a normal 2 hander..

i remember giving it to another toon.. dupre i think it was, and it wasnt givin back to the avatar at that point

[Dominus]

When you got enough sleep, please tell us whether you still have problems and what your problem is
If exult tells you you need the snapshot you need that AND you need to run the snapshot OF EXULT AND EXULT STUDIO and not the rc1.
The f2 cheat does not have the item creator, that got moved to the shape browser ctrl+b.

[Friendly79]

G'day Dominus,

Still not sleepin yet.. got caught reading about the HD project..

just to make sure im with you here.. i currently have installed

Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7) Binary which is the rc1 and
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 binary snapshot

if i follow you its the following 2 i need installed?

Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 binary snapshot
Exult Studio Windows snapshot (work in progress)

Thanks for the advice in advance, i really appreciate this

[Friendly79]

That looks to have fixed it.. just installed those 2 to a new directory.. it still shared my Exult settings from */documents and settings/fred/local settings/applications data/exult

so i was able to load my save with the new install, edit the object in with ctrl-b and insert

Thanks very much guys.. saved me alot of hair-pulling